My ranking process for 2027 is underway, and I've begun at the beginning with the first two rounds. Here's what I'm thinking for both categories (Roto) and points (H2H) leagues: cbssports.com/fantasy/baseba…

This is how I won @ToutWars this year. There was also Parker Messick in Round 26, but the point is that I'm often struck by how bizarrely championship teams come together. Getting six of your first 10 picks wrong (with Turang and Hader being the other successes) in a highly competitive 15-team league seems like a recipe for disaster, but enough windfall-type picks can make up for it, particularly when the misses are more just underwhelming than absent. It happens this way more often than any of us would care to admit. I won by 12, by the way.

When Dad buys the birthday presents, Dad tries the birthday presents.

And of course big thanks to @CBSScottWhite and @CPTowers who always make my job easier. They come ready to go no matter what time we end up recording. And the work they do behind the scenes with the newsletter, rankings, articles and everything in between is second to none.

Don’t really post much here anymore, but: Big thanks to everyone who listens, reads, follows, etc. I think FBT is better than it’s ever been before, and I’m proud of all that @CBSScottWhite @Roto_Frank do. Another great season down, and YES, there will be baseball in 2027.

How good is Better Call Saul? Of its 63 episodes, more than one-eighth score higher than 9.5 on IMDb. More than one-third score higher than 9.0. Not a single one scores lower than 8.0. The word I most often use to describe it is, against all odds, "beautiful," and I wouldn't say that's true for any other show. Why "against all odds?" Saul Goodman was slime personified in Breaking Bad, truly the lowest of the low and with no layers to him otherwise. By the end of his own story, he was the most complex, most compelling and most sympathetic character in the entire two-series saga. Better Call Saul made what had heretofore been comic relief the central figure of a tragedy so gripping that you desperately wanted better for him than what you already knew was coming. It took a comic sketch writer/performer and transformed him into a dramatic powerhouse, which even Bob Odenkirk has said was against all odds. It was the sort of prestige TV that you could recommend to both your dad and your mom (which I did, and they both enjoyed it so much that they decided to give Breaking Bad a try, also against all odds). It forever changed the way I perceive mint chocolate chip ice cream, the word "chicanery" and, most especially, the song "The Winner Takes It All" by Abba. It struck such an emotional chord that whenever Bob Odenkirk or Michael McKean grace my screen in some other role, my heart swells with gratitude. And it did it while contending with all the baggage of a spinoff and all the banality of a prequel. It is a genuine miracle of TV, and while I hesitate to say it's the best, seeing as it's lacking the grand ambition of so many others in the running, I don't think the medium has given us better.

Here are 12 last-minute streamers (six pitchers and six hitters) for leagues that allow daily lineup changes: cbssports.com/fantasy/baseba…

Here's my initial top 20 at first base, the most plentiful position for 2027: cbssports.com/fantasy/baseba…

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There are a lot of inferences you could draw from this, most of them bad, but I've observed that my own kids, soon to be 12 and 9, have shown little interest in toys over the years. And it's not because they're on their devices -- we don't give them those. I've decided it's because (a) they never see toy commercials and (b) their friends don't talk about, smuggle into school or show much interest in toys either.

In his first 42 big-league plate appearances #Dodgers Josue De Paula has 11 walks and 5 Ks.

OF Ronald Acuña Jr. left tonight’s game due to a left shin contusion. X-rays were negative and he is day-to-day.

Will be nice to get a peek at this guy. Power/speed threat without major contact issues. I have him in two of my three dynasty leagues.

Two-start pitcher rankings for the season's final week are updated. Make sure you read the intro for important context: cbssports.com/fantasy/baseba…